The protagonist, Li Ye, is a young man struggling at the bottom of society. By chance, he joins a mysterious company called Youbirian Network and becomes a “gold farmer,” mining ore in the immersive virtual reality game Martial World.
A generous salary, top-of-the-line equipment, and flexible hours all seem like gifts from fate. Yet Li Ye soon discovers a chilling secret behind the job: when a character dies in the game, the company “optimizes” the employee out of a job in the real world. Those “optimized” employees often meet mysterious deaths, becoming nothing more than cold, disposable “consumables.”
To survive, Li Ye must grow stronger fast in the perilous world of Martial World. Relying on his keen eye and determination, he starts as an ordinary miner and gradually learns forging, marksmanship, and archery, setting foot on the path of martial arts. The growth of his in-game attributes can actually strengthen his real body, granting him extraordinary power. But that power also draws him deeper into the vast conspiracy of Youbirian Network.
On one side are the deadly rivalries of the martial world, factional conflicts, and the pursuit of martial arts in the game. On the other are constant surveillance, exorbitant “contracts of indenture,” and the shadow of coworkers vanishing under mysterious circumstances. Li Ye walks on thin ice between two worlds. Can the mining pick in his hands break through the layers of fog separating virtuality from reality? And what, exactly, is the “rain of gold coins” falling for all the “gold farmers”?
This book cannot be said to be similar to a netizen's Death Martial Arts. Why are they exactly the same? [What] Four stars for now, let's see if we can write something different later
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